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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






2. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






3. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






4. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






5. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






6. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






7. A strong pause within a line.






8. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






9. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






10. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






11. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






12. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






13. What a story or play is about.






14. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






15. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






16. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






17. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






18. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






19. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






20. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






21. A short saying with a moral.






22. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






23. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






24. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






25. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






26. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






27. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






28. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






29. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






30. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






31. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






32. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






33. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






34. The main character of a literary work.






35. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






36. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






37. A character struggles against some outside force.






38. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






39. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






40. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






41. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






42. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






43. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






44. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






45. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






46. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






47. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






48. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






49. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






50. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.